This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the term “Listen First”, and how that applies to the Fire Service Today.

An Interview with Battalion Chief David Destefano

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the importance of decision making for the initial company officers and we also talk about decision making in the firehouse.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast is looking at the word reference (s) in the context of the fire service. This applies to training, incidents, dealing with people and instructing.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast asks the question, “Are You Smarter Than Your Instructor?” When you arrive at an incident scene are you operating by SOP or by habit? When is this incident not like the last one?

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast talks about the overuse and casual attitudes and behaviors that surround the word mentor.

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast interviews Retired Chief Charles Werner and General Manager Forrest Wieder about an APP that will give you real time hazardous material and rail car contents across the US and Canada.

If You have rail in your community or respond mutual aid to a community that has rail, than this APP is for you.

http://askrail.us/

This week The Firefighter Training Podcast discusses the three choices that all of us have as firefighters, both in our own lives and on the job whether career, volunteer or on call.

This week the Firefighter Training Podcast Interviews Greg Howard who has experience as a career and an on-call firefighter in British Columbia.

I talk about the similarities and the differences between the US and Canada.